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WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
Aid and Our Changing EnvironmentStockholm, 4 June 2013
Finn TarpUNU-WIDER
What is ReCom?
• Aid is diverse and complex – no single individual can encompass it all
• A large and comprehensive joint research, documentation and communications initiative (initiated in early 2011)
• Motivated by the desire to understand better four key questions about aid
Four key questions
• What works? • What could work? • What is scalable? • What is transferrable?
Five thematic focus areas
• Growth and employment• Governance and fragility• Social sectors• Environment and climate change• Gender equality
Note: Poverty and associated human development issues are addressed throughout
Why?
• The development job far from done– 1.3 billion people absolutely poor– Poor farmers face environmental challenges
• On top comes climate change– Global temperature rise– Plus many other issues
• Need to develop, mitigate and adapt• We study how can aid help
Today’s questions include – Part I
• What works, what does not work, and what could work in foreign aid in the pursuit of a sustainable human development agenda characterized by global environmental change and the need for planetary stewardship?
• Has aid become “greener”?
• Have recent institutional innovations worked and what would be required to make them work better?
• What is required to rise to the 21st century challenges in land use?
• How can aid contribute to more effective governance in the pursuit of sustainable development objectives?
• What is the role of renewables in Africa’s energy future and how should environmental issues influence these choices?
Today’s questions include – Part II
• What are the respective strengths and weaknesses in bilateral versus multilateral aid in relation to environmental issues?
• What are the distinctions between traditional development aid and financial transfers related to the environment?
• What are the issues and difficult choices associated with focusing aid finance and/or aid institutions on issues in middle income countries (environmental or otherwise)?
• What are the roles of aid institutions in fomenting the transformations necessary to address global environmental problems, particularly climate change?
• Is the aid system as presently designed up to the task of addressing climate change?
• What, if any, institutional reforms to the aid system are required to address 21st century issues?
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